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WCAG 3.0’s Proposed Scoring Model: A Shift In Accessibility Evaluation
- WCAG 3.0 proposes a new scoring model that prioritizes usability over compliance, aiming to evaluate how well users with disabilities can complete tasks.
- The draft of WCAG 3.0 represents a shift towards evaluating accessibility based on meaningful outcomes rather than just technical compliance.
- WCAG 3.0 covers a broader ecosystem, including applications, tools, connected devices, and emerging interfaces, emphasizing accessibility across the digital world.
- The structure of WCAG 3.0 focuses on guidelines, outcomes, methods, and how-to guides, emphasizing user needs and real impacts over technical implementation.
- WCAG 3.0 introduces a scoring model that provides graded scores instead of binary pass or fail outcomes, allowing for partial successes and real improvements to be recognized.
- Teams can measure progress with WCAG 3.0 scores normalized on a scale, with labels like Poor, Fair, Good, and Excellent, reflecting the level of accessibility support.
- WCAG 3.0 introduces critical errors that can override positive scores, ensuring that high-impact accessibility failures are addressed.
- WCAG 3.0 proposes conformance levels of Bronze, Silver, and Gold, incentivizing progression and inclusive design processes for exemplary accessibility.
- The shift to WCAG 3.0 requires familiarizing with outcomes and scoring models, embedding accessibility into workflows, and involving users with disabilities early and consistently.
- However, the transition to WCAG 3.0 may introduce risks such as subjective scoring, reduced compliance clarity, legal misalignment, and the potential for minimum viable accessibility.
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